Drunken yobs went on a rampage in Cambridgeshire dragging a man into an alleyway and beating him up amid a spate of violence and vandalism.

The attack happened amid a night of mayhem in St Ives involving violence, vandalism and theft on Friday and Saturday night and the early hours of Sunday morning (February 3-5).

Police are investigating an assault which took place in an alleyway off The Broadway in the early hours of Sunday, February 5. The victim and his friend had been walking from a nightclub to a take-away when they were approached by two unknown males and a verbal exchange took place.

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The victim was then dragged into the alleyway where he was assaulted before being rescued by his friend.

And in Crown Place police arrested three men on charges of affray after a fight broke out outside a nightclub in the early hours of Saturday morning, (February 4).

Two victims were seen to be punched and kicked about the head by the offenders, one of whom was also arrested on a drugs charge for possession of cannabis.

And police have appealed for information following a spate of damage to cars and bins in the Granta Close and Spencer Drive areas overnight on Friday and Saturday (February 3-4).

The owners of several cars found their windscreen wipers had been bent or broken, and litter bins were kicked over and their contents spilled across the road. Police have carried out enquiries but would like anyone who saw or heard anything suspicious in the area during the night to contact them.

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In Burrel Road a thief stole the wing mirror of a camper-van that had been left by its owner in the compound of commercial premises at some time during the night of Friday and Saturday.

In The Broadway and Crown Street there were several vandal attacks late on Saturday.

A motorist reported his car being kicked and damaged by a drunken member of a group of young people, as he drove along Crown Street at around 10.30pm.

A shop window was smashed by a very drunk man in The Broadway and another drunken male damaged a taxi parked in The Broadway by punching its passenger door hard enough to cause a dent that stopped the window from winding up or down.